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Author Topic: Is my childhood memory false?  (Read 2398 times)

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Is my childhood memory false?
« on: June 14, 2006, 12:44:02 am »
The last time I played Battlezone on a real cabinet, I must have been 7 years old. And I could have sworn that the real arcade version is in Real 3D. I mean that your left eye sees a slightly different image then your right eye giving you a true 3d image while you play. Is my memory real or is it some kind of distorted false memory from my childhood? Please help Ive searched everywhere and I can't find any mention of Battlezone producing separate images for the right and left eyes of the viewer. And if by chance my memory is correct then that would bring me to the question of, why hasn't anyone built a way to play Battlezone in true 3d in MAME?
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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2006, 12:49:36 am »
False. It is a monitor and a plastic scope.


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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2006, 12:57:57 am »
Thanks.  I know that I only played it twice when I was 7 Twice on the same and only day that I ever saw the real arcade machine.  I guess I was so impressed with the game at the time back then, that I remembered it to be better then it really was.
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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2006, 05:31:20 pm »
battlezone was  a fantastic game,but i'm sure it was only a vector screen not 3d at all

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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2006, 10:36:59 am »
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I mean that your left eye sees a slightly different image then your right eye giving you a true 3d image while you play.

Sounds like the Nintendo Virtual Boy.

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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2006, 04:18:32 pm »
Battlezone was not 3D at all, but that would have been cool. :)

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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2006, 06:14:15 pm »
I played a Battlezone up in Idaho once.  Only had one working "joystick".  I got the high score.

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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2006, 06:08:21 pm »
Battlezone does use a mirror to reflect the monitor's image, giving the feel of added depth.

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Re: Is my childhood memory false?
« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2006, 11:37:07 am »
sure your not thinking of SUBROC 3D?
very similar cabinets.

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